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2016 Volume 16, No 1 Friends of Sulgrave Manor Fall 2016 Volume 16, No 1 Dear Dames, Sulgrave Manor Tour “Over the Top” Dames Day at Sulgrave Manor and our Friends trip to Colonial Dames who joined the Friends of Sulgrave England gave all of us who participated a chance to discuss Manor’s June tour were rewarded with a week of visits to not only George Washington but the history of the early some of England’s most important (and in several cases, beginnings of our great country, significantly, our first elec- very private) cultural treasures. tion. The events leading up to the first presidential election The 2016 tour celebrated Anglo-American Friendship, in 1789 were not always agree- symbolized by Sulgrave, home of George Washington’s able to everyone, but the lead- ancestors, which the NSCDA has supported for 102 years. ers were united in their selec- In that spirit, the trip commemorated the life and work tion of the individual who of the late British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Spencer would be at the head of the Churchill (son of an American mother and distant relative national government. of George Washington and Princess Diana) who famously George Washington had led expounded: “In days to come, the British and American a revolutionary army to victo- peoples, for their own safety and the good of all will walk ry, but he then refused to seize together in majesty, in justice, and in peace.” power as nearly every other June 1 arriving Dames were immediately swept up in successful revolutionary leader that spirit at the Chesterfield Hotel, located next door to had done before him and after Dartmouth House, headquarters of the international educa- him. After the war, Washing- tional charity, The English-Speaking Union where a festive ton handed his commission dinner for the group was held the following evening. back to Congress and went “George Washington” by Sophisticated British guides Mo Anderson and Daphne home to Mt. Vernon. Gilbert Stuart owned by Young smoothly facilitated all visits and our entire trip. When approached by Alex- Sulgrave Manor and re- ander Hamilton about the pos- cently restored. sibility of his accepting the presidency, he replied “For you know me well enough, my good Sir, to be persuaded that I am not guilty of affectation when I tell you it is my great and sole desire to live and die, in peace and retire- ment, on my own farm.” At the thought of being president, Washington said that when the subject came up he “always felt a kind of gloom” settle upon his mind and that if he became president “the acceptance would be attended with more diffidence and reluctance than ever I experienced be- fore in my life.” By rejecting the crown at the end of the war, and his defining the powers of the presidency within a framework of republican presumptions, he demonstrated his immunity to all such ambitions. George III famously said, “If he will do that, then he will be the greatest figure of the age.” Touring started at the recently refurbished Wallace Col- lection in Manchester Square, described by the British Washington did it, and he was the greatest figure of the age. newspaper The Guardian as “One of the most jaw- dropping collections of old master paintings anywhere in Victoria Bradshaw the world.” A must-see Wallace treasure, amidst many, is Senior Representative to the Sulgrave Manor Board (Continued on page 2) BOARD OF TRUSTEES President, Mrs. Marvin E. Bradshaw, Jr. TEXAS (Continued from page 1) Vice-President, Mrs. James B. Congdon PENNSYLVANIA th Recording Secretary, Mrs. Richard Marius Tempero INDIANA Franz Hal’s 17 Century painting of a wary Dutch political Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. F. Worthington Hobbs PENNSYLVANIA operative, The Laughing Cavalier. Dames were then con- Treasurer, Mrs. William H. Schaaf, Jr. KENTUCKY veyed safely through Assistant Treasurer, Mrs. Paul S. Zerges, Jr. OHIO Mrs. V. Cassel Adamson , J. VIRGINIA London’s traffic Mrs. James R. C. Cobb ARKANSAS snarls to St. Paul’s Hilary Field Gripekoven OREGON Cathedral for a be- Mrs. Thomas W. Houghton TEXAS hind-the-scenes pri- Mrs. Harland W. Huston, Jr. WISCONSON vate tour, including Mrs. Rudolf Edward Knepper ILLINOIS Mrs. Michael D. Milone PENNSYLVANIA a visit to its attic Mrs. D. Thomas Moody FLORIDA archives, filled with Mrs. Lucian Newman, Jr. ALABAMA priceless volumes, Mrs. Robert Gray Rogers PENNSYLVANIA including the histor- Mrs. Marvin Sparks Singletary GEORGIA ic Tyndale Bible, the Mrs. W. Latimer Snowdon, Jr. DELAWARE Mrs. Charles W. Waring SOUTH CAROLINA first printed in Eng- lish, which launched HONORARY TRUSTEES the Christian Refor- Mrs. John Schley Rutherford ALABAMA Mrs. H. Taylor Morrissette ALABAMA mation in England. Mrs. Donald J. Gerzetic ARIZONA Next, the Sulgrave Mrs. Katherine T. Ford CALIFORNIA Friends were carried Mrs. Charles Steven Paul INDIANA A curiosity from the south first to visit Mrs. John B. Hubard MICHIGAN Chartwell, the pri- Mrs. Robert B. Field, Jr. NEW HAMPSHIRE Wallace collection. Mrs. David G. Holdsworth NEW JERSEY vate home of Sir Mrs. Thomas W. Houghton TEXAS Winston and Lady Mrs. Harland W. Huston, Jr. WISCONSON Clementine Churchill, delightfully family-scaled and sur- Mrs. David C. Fuchs NEW YORK rounded by an historic garden and landscape, followed by Mrs. William S. Tasman PENNSYLVANIA Sissinghurst, the extraordinary 1930s horticultural creation Mrs. C. Richard Treadway TENNESSEE of Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson. Mrs. Everett D. Bohls TEXAS th Mrs. S. Spencer N. Brown TEXAS The following day’s destination was a 21 Century pri- Mrs. William E. Chilton, III WEST VIRGINIA vate extravaganza, Wormsley Park – the 2,500-acre estate of ASSOCIATE TRUSTEES the Getty family. It features a private professional cricket field, a newly constructed outdoor opera stage, home of the Mrs. Sumner Greer Adams ALABAMA Garsington Opera, and a modern temple to art and learning, Mrs. Dean Blackwell-Miller ARIZONA Mrs. Briant Noland, ARKANSAS built of ancient flint stones, housing one of the world’s most Mrs. Cecelia Ruth Cole CALIFORNIA magnificent private libraries – lovingly displayed for the Ms. Mary Lanius COLORADO Dames by the Getty family’s archive staff. Mrs. David W. Dangremond CONNECTICUT The second part of the tour was based in Oxford – a city Mrs. David Paul Roselle DELAWARE of the past, present and future, where Dames were welcomed Mrs. J. Dapray Muir DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Mrs. Michael James Lyons FLORIDA at gracious and lively dinner parties given by groups of local Mrs. Vernon Nathaniel Hansford GEORGIA Sulgrave Manor supporters. th Mrs. C. Frank Damon HAWAII Sunday, June 5 was “Dames Day,” beginning with a Mrs. Ralph A. Bogan, Jr. ILLINOIS prayer service at the Sulgrave village church of St. James the Mrs. Carl R. Bates INDIANA Less, giving thanks for the 200 years of peace between Brit- Mrs. Kristine Bartley IOWA Mrs. Paul Murray Buchanan KANSAS ain and the United States, symbolized in the shared effort to Mrs. Harold W. Blevins KENTUCKY preserve and interpret Sulgrave Manor. A number of other Ms. Jayne Lobdell Middleton LOUISIANA NSCDA visitors in England were also on hand, including Mrs. Sally Foy MAINE President Marcy Moody, who gave a gracious welcome to Mrs. J. Glenn Harwood MARYLAND the luncheon celebration. She was followed by remarks from Mrs. Charles Martin Hamman MASSACHUSETTS Mrs. William L. Waldron MINNESOTA noted British publisher Norman Hudson, OBE, acting chair Mrs. Guy Thompson Vise, Jr. MISSISSIPPI of the Sulgrave Manor Trust. Mrs. Ben Hilliker MISSOURI Vicky Bradshaw, NSCDA Senior Representative to the Mrs. Wm. Laird McNichols NEBRASKA Sulgrave Trust and President of the Friends of Sulgrave Mrs. Jonathan P. Trace NEW HAMPSHIRE Manor, presided over the traditional flag ceremony, conduct- Ms. Rhoda J. Harris NEW JERSEY Mrs. Walter W. Grist NEW YORK ed by the Honor Guard of the 501 Combat Support Wing of Ms. Rosalie Haines Norton NORTH CAROLINA the United States Air Mrs. Mark Thomas Johnson OHIO Force, based at nearby Mrs. Michael Eugene McPherson OKLAHOMA Royal Air Force Base Mrs. Peter B. Archie OREGON Croughton. Mrs. Donald W. Street PENNSYLVANIA Ms. Neil Clayton Leerssen RHODE ISLAND The tour’s final two Mrs. Madison Baker Wyche III SOUTH CAROLINA days included some of Mrs. James Blythe, Jr. TENNESSEE the world’s most fa- Mrs. Lee Marvin Folkes TEXAS mous landscapes and Miss Madeleine Helmer VERMONT Mrs. Robert William McCreary VIRGINIA Mrs. John A. Campbell WASHINGTON (Continued on page 3) DeArmond LaFollette Arbogast WEST VIRGINIA Mrs. Gary C. Zaiser WISCONSIN 2 (Continued from page 2) one of its greatest “treasure houses” – Blenheim Palace – birthplace of Winston Churchill and home of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. That extravagant baroque structure and landscaping was saved from ruin with the 9th Duke’s 1896 marriage to American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt. One of her descendants, Lady Henrietta Spencer Churchill, met with the touring Dames over lunch, explaining how her fami- ly operates the palace today, not only as a home but also as a multi-purpose event venue, open to the public and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Two smaller privately managed gardens of great design and historic significance were also visited: 18th Century Rousham, which is among the earliest examples of English landscape design, and the other, developed in recent years by Australian-born Marylyn Abbott, who stages a summer out- door opera season at West Green Garden which she leases from the National Trust. The Sulgrave tour’s route also included one of the most famous private gardens on the planet, Highgrove, home of His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales and Camilla, the What a Contrast Duchess of Cornwall. One gains admittance there only by surrendering all cellphones, cameras, recorders and telescopic Between the early 1920’s and the advent of World War gear, then presenting photo identifications that match a care- fully II, members of The National Society of The Colonial com- Dames of America made regular “pilgrimages” to Sulgrave piled Manor on a regular basis.
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